U+10541 "𐕁" Caucasian Albanian Letter Dyan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕁
U+10541 "𐕁" Caucasian Albanian Letter Dyan is a letter from the Caucasian Albanian script, which was historically used to write the Caucasian Albanian language, a now-extinct language once spoken in the region of modern-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. This character represents a specific sound in that language, likely corresponding to a voiced dental or palatal consonant. The script itself was rediscovered through medieval manuscripts and inscriptions, with this letter being part of a larger alphabet that survived in liturgical texts. Today, the letter is encoded in Unicode to preserve and enable digital representation of this ancient writing system, facilitating scholarly research and cultural heritage preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10541 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Dyan |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010541 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd41 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Caucasian Albanian |
| Script Extensions | Caucasian Albanian |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |